ONYX Boox e-reader

The international company ONYX International specialises on release of electronic books and delivers them in variety of the European countries, including Russia. It has let out already some models of electronic books from which for today in shops models i62 and i63 series.

i62m Victoria, i62m Albatros, i62m Dream differ from each other only in colour of the case and the price. The case of model Victoria is black, Albatros - white, Dream - grey. The screen of devices - E-ink Pearl touch, a diagonal of 6 inches, the permission is standard - 600 on 800 points. At model Dream the screen touch E-ink Pearl HD with the permission 758 on 1024 points. All models have module Wi-fi, the Internet browser, support almost all formats of files. Browsing keys on electronic books are located on both sides that allows to hold equally conveniently them by any hand. Loading of additional applications, games and fonts TTF are realised. There is a quite good file manager for management of files.

Very interesting developers have approached to realisation of reading of documents. In the menu of "ADJUSTMENT" for reading of formats FB2 and EPUB it is possible to choose one of two programs for reading the most popular in Russia - FBReader, established on all readers Pocketbook, or CoolReader, established on LBOOK reader. In the last case footnotes in the text should be displayed in the bottom of page.

Complete set Onyx BOOX i62M also the worthy: the Book, an USB-cable, the charger, a strong bookcover.

i63SL Kepler, i63ML Kopernik, i63ML Maxwell the next series of models of e-books from ONYX BOOX. Device design has not changed. Two the most important differences from the series i63 i62 - using of Android operating system and adjustable LED backlight. Screen devices - E-ink Pearl HD, 6-inch diagonal, high resolution - 758 x 1024 pixels.

A model i63SL Kepler screen is not touch, no module wi-fi, but there is an audio jack for ear phones, internal memory - 4 Gb.

A model i63ML Kopernik is different from Kepler merely the absence of a jack for ear phones.

A model i63ML Maxwell has a touch screen, wi-fi module and internal memory of 8 Gb. There is no jack for ear phones.

All models allow you to use additional applications for android format. Apk. Bookshelf readers is improved for a little. Now it shows the book covers, but still does not show the titles and authors' names. Function keys are located on the sides of the device, they can be swapped, but unfortunately can’t be configured to simultaneously flipping pages and the left and right arrow keys.

Advantages of a design and equipment: Touchscreen display of last version, the thin beautiful case, convenient arrangement of keys, the power unit and cover in the equipment.

Design and equipment flaws: Has not been detected.

Advantages of the software: Support of folders on a flash card, fonts with a mode antialiasing, support of all formats of the text, one of two programs of reading on a choice, Wi-Fi, downloading TTF-fonts.

Software flaws: The bookshelf does not show neither names of authors, nor names of books, covers - only a file name.

What to read?

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic". Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths...

What to read?

Stephen King "Mr Mercedes". A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who's haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular - the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when the economy was guttering out. Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing that from happening...

Stephen King "11.22.63". WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.